Assessing soil microbial populations responding to crude-oil amendment at different temperatures using phylogenetic, functional gene (alkB) and physiological analyses

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 7580-7586

  Hamamura, Natsuko ^a,c   Fukui, Manabu ^b   Ward, David M ^a   Inskeep, William P ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; COLLOIDS; DEGRADATION; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); ELECTROPHORESIS; GELATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HYDROCARBONS; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PARAFFINS; SOILS; BACTERIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CRUDE OIL; RNA; TEMPERATURE;

16S RRNA; 16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCES; 16S RRNA SEQUENCES; ALKANE HYDROXYLASE; AMENDED SOILS; CONSISTENT; CRUDE OILS; DEGRADING BACTERIA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; EFFECT OF TEMPERATURES; FUNCTIONAL GENES; HEXADECANE; HIGH-RESOLUTION; LOW TEMPERATURES; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; OIL DEPLETIONS; PCR PRIMERS; RHODOCOCCUS; SEQUENCING ANALYSIS;

GENES;

ALKANE; HEXADECANE; PETROLEUM; RNA 16S;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CRUDE OIL; ELECTROKINESIS; GROWTH RATE; MICROCOSM; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ALKB GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS; RHODOCOCCUS; SOIL MICROFLORA; TEMPERATURE;

ALKANE 1-MONOOXYGENASE; ALKANES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES, BACTERIAL; PETROLEUM; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; RHODOCOCCUS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

PSEUDOMONAS; RHODOCOCCUS;

16S RRNA; 16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; 16S RRNA SEQUENCES; ALKANE HYDROXYLASE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESES (DGGE); EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; FUNCTIONAL GENES; HEXADECANE; HIGH RESOLUTION ANALYSIS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; N-ALKANES; RHODOCOCCUS; SEQUENCING ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROBIAL POPULATION; SOIL MICROCOSMS;

EID: 54349118397     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es800030f     Document Type: Article

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